It was silly, but I was really hoping 2022 would be different.
A new year. A fresh start for America.
And an end – or at least a brief armistice – to the nasty political civil war that has tortured us for the last two years.
But after experiencing less than 12 hours of 2022, I came to my senses: On Jan. 1, I tweeted, “New Year, same BS.”
That’s how long it took FOX, CNN, CBS and the rest of the national media to show me that the only thing that was going to change about the year 2022 was the number.
Everyone in America is still mad at everyone else.
The country is still split into red and blue political camps. It’s still split into the vaxxed and unvaxxed.
And while the Biden administration continues to try its damnedest to wreck everything that still works in America, Donald Trump is still driving the Democrat Party and the media crazy.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris proved how much Trump’s ghost haunts them on Thursday morning when they delivered their equally awful speeches marking the anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021.
You remember “Insurrection Day”? Unless you’ve been in a coma for a year, how could you forget?
It was the day our Capitol building in Washington was burned to the ground by an armed mob of Trump supporters who killed dozens of Congress people, overturned the 2020 election and destroyed American democracy forever.
In the real world, of course, it didn’t actually happen like that.
But Biden, Harris, the Pelosi-Schumer tag team in Congress and the media want to make sure 1/6 becomes a day that will live forever in infamy – like 12/7/41 or 9/11.
That kind of laughable rhetoric really helps to unite our politically divided country, doesn’t it?
So does insisting on calling 1/6 an “insurrection” instead of what it was – a peaceful political protest that exploded into a dangerous and disgraceful riot whose only fatality was an unarmed Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt, who was shot to death by a Capitol police officer.
No one in politics with half a brain and an ounce of power was ever in favor of what happened in Washington on 1/6.
No one on the left, no one on the right. Not President Trump, not even Sean Hannity.
In fact, for the first time probably since 9/11, FOX and CNN were actually on the same political page.
Republicans and conservatives repeatedly have said the Capitol riot was a disgrace to America and that violently crashing the Capitol was wrong.
They’ve also said – repeatedly – that those who broke the law should be arrested and charged – fairly and equally – with trespassing, attacking police or whatever appropriate crime.
Unlike the left’s sympathetic and hands-off reaction to the deadly and destructive nightly riots in a dozen American cities in the summer of 2020, Republicans have been consistent on how to react to mob violence.
Republicans condemned it in those blue cities and at the Capitol on “Insurrection Day.”
But for the Democrat Party and its flock of parrots in the media, the “deadly” insurrection of 1/6 Trump supposedly fomented has become a myth they are never going to let the country forget.
1/6 is their new national holiday. A day they can memorialize – weaponize – each year for decades for purely partisan political reasons.
For now, Democrats know 1/6 is the only propaganda weapon they have left to distract the public’s attention from the Biden administration’s never-ending list of failures.
But ordinary Americans don’t care about marking the anniversary of “Insurrection Day.” They know a fake insurrection when they see one.
They’re more worried about things that are real and things that really matter to them – today. Things like the rising price of gas and hamburger and Biden’s bungled war on COVID.
Anyway, don’t tell the Democrats. But last fall ordinary Americans across the country started a real insurrection that’s long overdue – a worthy revolution by parents who aim to break the power of public school boards and the teachers unions and retake control of their kids’ educations.
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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.
Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.
Hey democrats don’t be frightened it’s onlyTrump supporters gaining strength and more supporters- boo!! Hope I didn’t scare you! LMAO
If Organized Businessman Trump had really organized an insurrection on Jan 6th, like most all of his policies in office,,it would have succeeded. Proof positive that the Democrats AGAIN are guilty of Bearing false witness against their neighbor, and their ex=President, which is actually a Christian prohibition that the Biden Loving Pope seems to want to ignore along with little things like millions of abortions that Biden has bloodied his hands in support of. in order to buy votes. No, like Ecclesiastes said, “There is nothing new under the Sun” a generation comes and a generation goes but the socialist corruption never changes, just goes underground into the woodwork for a while till its safe to come back out and promote more mayhem and social division. So just how does a Biden with 1% of his primary support, cut a deal with the Bernie Socialists and end up President? We all know what Joe got but what did he have to give Bernie in return? $4 Trillion Bill here, $6 trillion there, and pretty soon you are talking real money.
Exactly. HAD THIS ACTUALLY BEEN a proper insurrection, EVERY DEMENTED treasonous dem, would ALREADY be corpses, and WE WOULDN’T have had a disasterous 2021…
They already know it and what is that they fear most, getting found out, then getting a good thrashing.
It hasn’t changed YET, Mr Reagan—but the storm clouds are visible and the thunder is rolling. The mid-terms are coming along with an unleashing of fury that has been boiling beneath the surface for quite some time. We are preparing for a resurrection day—when sensibility and common sense will be restored in our government—where there is a return to the values and principles underscored by our Constitution—where enemies of the State will be replaced with true Patriots and leaders with honor—where we will regain the respect from foreign countries as a force to be reckoned with. It will be Doomsday for the Dems.
We all hope, that change is coming… BUT WITH THE DEM Fraud machine in full sway, i fear how much they will be able to steal.
To many January was Epiphany Day, the twelve days of Christmas being over and the celebration of the arrival of the Magi to honor the one they pronounce as King of Kings while at the same time Orthodox Christians begin their celebration of Christmas Eve. There was another epiphany that day, usage of the Greek word meaning to make visible approprate, in a far different context. The Democrats exposed themselves as being hypocritical, petty and vindictive over an event that was really an embarrassment for the Democrat politicos in charge of keeping law and order in Washington, District of Columbia. Of rewriting the events which took place, there’s something about a mole hill turning into a mountain, there isn’t much that can be said about the tall tales being told ala Paul Bunyan or Joe Magarac.